Automatic water-measuring device



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I W. LAMMBRS. ATUMATIG WATERMBASURING DEVICE. 180.885,274. Patented June 26, 1888.

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AUTOMATIC WATER-MEASURING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION `forming part of Letters Parent No. 385,274, dated June 28,1888.

Application filed December 20, 1886. Serial No. 222,087. (No model.)

To @ZZ wrom/ it, may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LAMMERs, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Stone Ohurch,in the county of Vashington and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Tater- Measuring Devices; and I do declare the following to be a'full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it .appertains to the accompanying drawing, and to letters or iigures oi' reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The figure in the drawing represents a vertical longitudinal section ofthe invention.

The invention relates to improvements in devices whereby the amount of water flowing through the pumpV attached to a steam-engine can at any time be ascertained; and it consists, essentially,i n a fixed dial or scale and a pointer ism attached to the pump, and the construe tion and arrangement of which is hereinafter explained, illustrated in the drawing, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by letter, A designates the pump-cylinder in which the pistou. a reciprocates.

B B are the vertical valve-chambers, the l former connected below to a pipe, C, leading to the well, and D is the eduction-pipe of the pump-cylinder running from the valvecham- The valve-chamber B below the cylinder has the part e in atransverse partition ordiaphragm, as shown, which part is closed by the upwardly-opening valve E, of any suitable construction.

fis a port in a transverse partition or diaphragm between the valve-chai'nber B and the pump-cylinder, and F is an npwardly-opening valve to close the same, the said valve being similar to the valve E.

G is a standard rising from a proper point pointer or index-arm having one end pivoted thereto so as to vibrate vertically, its free end moving over the graduations of the dial or scale H, secured to a suitable part, X, of the frame of the engine, and made on the arc of a circle of 4which the pivot-point of the index! arm is the center.

'i is a short connecting rod or link with its upper end pivoted to the index'arm at a suitable point, and its lower end pivoted to the upper end of a vertical reciprocating rod, I, which passes through a stuffing-box, J', situated centrally on the roof of the valve-chamber B. The said rod has on its lower end a disk, j, whichis pressed against the upper surface of the valve F by the coiled spring K, surrounding the rod I, between the diskj and the innertsurface of the roof of the valvechamber.-

It is evident that when no water is flowing through the pump, and the valves are consequently closed, the 'point of the index-arm will not move from the lowest or naught graduation on the scale, and that the more water that passes through the valve-chambers and the higher the valve F consequently rises thehigher will the point of the index-arm rise on the dial with the inward reciprocations of the piston. Thus the engineer can tell at a glance how much water is passing through the pump at each of said reciprocations.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pateut, is-

In a device to indicate the amount of water passing through a pump, the combination, with the piston and upper and lower valves F,of the standard G, rising from thereof of the chamber of said valve, the indexarrn g,pivoted to the end of the standard, the scale H, made on the arc of` a pircle concentric with the pivotal point 'of the indexarm, the link 2', pivoted at a suitable point on the indexarm, the rod I, connected by the link with indexarm, and having on its lower end vthe disk j, resting upon but not attached to the valve, and the spring K, surrounding the rod I be- Vtween the disk j and the roof of the valvechamber, substantially as specified.

In testilnon y whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM LAMMERS.

Witnesses:

AUGUs'r BRINKMANN, JOHN` BonsoHnN. 

